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Queiroz (right) is a former driver and former security guard of today’s Senator Flávio Bolsonaro
After two years of investigations, the Public Ministry of Rio de Janeiro concluded the investigation and denounced Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, eldest son of the President of the Republic, on charges of crimes of criminal organization, embezzlement, money laundering and embezzlement. The crimes, according to prosecutors, were committed over a decade, during his tenure in the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro (Alerj).
The Prosecutor’s Office also denounced the then assistant to Flávio and personal friend of Jair Bolsonaro, Fabrício Queiroz, and 15 other people for the same crimes. Their names have not been officially released because the case is pending confidentiality.
According to investigators, Queiroz operated a millionaire criminal plan from 2007 to 2018 in which other cabinet officials returned part of the salary, with the president’s son as the main beneficiary.
Flávio Bolsonaro has stated on several occasions, since the suspicions arose, that he did not commit any crime. According to him, there is an ongoing political persecution through an illegal investigation aimed at destabilizing his father’s government. Queiroz also denies any wrongdoing.
Next steps in the process
The Fluminense Public Ministry released the complaint around midnight on 3/11. The agency had filed the complaint against Flávio and 16 more defendants on 10/19, but the case was now only distributed to the judge who reports on the case.
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As part of an investigation into Operation Car Wash, a former adviser to Flávio Bolsonaro identified a suspicious banking operation in the amount of R $ 1.2 million.
Now it is up to the Special Organ of the Rio Justice Court (TJ-RJ) to accept or not the complaint. If so, the defendants become defendants and the judicial process begins.
When his analysis is finished, the rapporteur makes his vote available to the other judges to vote on the prosecution’s complaint.
There is no provision for any of these next procedural steps.
According to the Public Ministry, the case is under “super secret” and it is “not possible to provide more information.”
It should be remembered that the defense of Flávio Bolsonaro still tries to block the entire investigation with actions in higher courts.
In October this year, Felix Fischer, Minister of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), rejected a request from his lawyers to dismiss the case, claiming that he had the right to a privileged forum and, therefore, is taking the case to trial. the first instance should be discarded.
But the challenge has yet to be presented in court and in the Federal Supreme Court (STF).
What is concrete against Flávio?
Through the breach of Queiroz’s secrecy, the investigators identified that the former employee received R $ 2 million through 483 cash deposits made by 13 advisers linked to Flávio’s office in Alerj.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the laundering of these funds was also carried out through a chocolate franchise, of which Flávio is a partner, and almost R $ 1.6 million spent there.
Throughout the investigation, members of the Public Ministry also identified that Queiroz transferred money from the wage cracking scheme through bank deposits and payments of personal expenses by Flávio Bolsonaro and his family.
In October 2018, for example, the former advisor made two cash payments for vouchers referring to the monthly payments of Flávio’s daughters, which amounted to almost R $ 7 thousand.
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Son of the president investigated for alleged irregularities during the mandate as state deputy in Rio
The investigators crossed the payment time with images from the camera system of the Alerj bank branch, which recorded Queiroz carrying out these two transactions.
According to the Public Ministry of RJ, between 2013 and 2018, almost 70% of the health plan and school fees were paid in cash, totaling almost R $ 260 thousand.
In other words, 63 vouchers from the president’s son’s family health plan, which totaled R $ 108 thousand, were paid at the cash register. By way of comparison, the story of Flávio and his wife, Fernanda, only R $ 9,000 came out for this purpose in all these years, according to the investigation.
In the case of school fees, almost R $ 153 thousand were paid in cash and another R $ 95 thousand came out of the couple’s accounts, according to data on breach of confidentiality analyzed by the researchers.
According to a report that integrates the complaint of the Public Ministry of Rio de Janeiro, deposits for identical amounts were identified in Flávio’s account, in a few minutes, on several different dates. In one of the days analyzed, ten deposits of R $ 2,000 were made in an interval of five minutes.
Flávio denied any irregularities related to the transactions. “It may be that, by chance, I did send Queiroz to pay my bill. I take my money, I give it to him, he goes to the bank and pays me. Wanting to link this to some kind of scheme that I have with Queiroz is like criminalizing any secretary who is going to pay a boss’s account at the bank. Can’t I send someone to pay me a bank account?
The investigation of the Prosecutor’s Office indicated coincidences between dates and deposits made in a fractional way and in cash in the account of the Kopenhagen chocolate shop of which Flávio Bolsonaro is a partner and withdrawals made by the parliamentarian himself.
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For the defense of Flávio Bolsonaro, the investigation of the MP ‘is illegal’
According to a report by Jornal Nacional, on TV Globo, MP-RJ documents show that, on at least three occasions, the transfers made by Flávio to his personal account involved round amounts similar to the amount that had been deposited in the store’s account. on the same date or a few days before.
The prosecution’s investigation also identified several other irregularities in the financial movement of the store, which has already been the subject of raids and seizures by the Public Ministry.
According to the researchers, the cash inflow to the franchise account did not vary proportionally during the Easter period, when there is naturally an increase in demand for the products sold there. In other words, the store even checked in more cash outside of Easter than during the holiday period.
Asked about the movement of cash in the store, Flávio said in an interview with the Globo newspaper that there is no irregularity in the transfers. “It’s a trade. If the person comes with money to buy, won’t I accept it? If I did something stupid, would it be in a franchise, which has matrix monitoring? If I wanted to do something wrong, I would go to any other branch that is much more easy.”
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